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A LANDSCAPING PROJECT FOR YOUR GARDEN WITH FREE CUTTINGS --Fast growing
choices by Anita Sands HernandezPINK
geraniums, from
cutting to bloom, just a few months. Then they are perennials but stay
bush like for years. They are not invasive. EASIEST to replicate. NOT ONLY
PINK! Wherever you walk the dog, keep an eye peeled for them. Build
window boxes for outside kitchen if son or hubby is handy.

Make them of some simple JUNK WOOD. Every alley has some. Throw a window
box under every single window on the house.

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A row of truncated cypresses or ancient hedge plants do not have to
be dug out. Leave the central stems. They will be less glaring, less 'stick
out' with soft, green vines Weave vines among the upright wood. The Madagascar
Jasmine is an outstanding vine for fences.

In SPRING, PLANT
MORNINGLORIES most varieties are annual.Morninglory vine is usually an annual. But not always. The annuals
have seeds in Autumn, replant themselves in spring but you can gather seed
to give away.

MORNINGLORIES are SO STRIKING!I grow them up all trees, up all fences. Ask me for seed. Some of mine
are blue, dark blue some pink. Most have stars like these. I don't have
the HEAVENLY BLUE hybrid. Mine are Vintage seeds.

ANOTHER VINE: I recommend the MADAGASCAR JASMINE. Fragrant all
summer long. Tall but not invasive, will cover part of a ten foot tree
but not impede fruiting. Here is a first year potted one.

ALSO, SEND Mexican or African chayote vines up into trees, onto roof.
This squash is FOOD. Seek chayotes at the Mex or Asian Market, maybe even
in any produce dept of a regular super market store -- PICK THE FRUIT with
a little tail. It has to have a tail sticking out. Of course at the chayote
factory, they keep those themselves, to take home, or the farmer keeps
them.

GROW YOUR OWN FRUITS!

Plant berries from the dumpster, even if rotting. you will have tons
of BLACKBERRY PLANTS to donate. Good
markets have the MAUI PASSIONFRUIT, most delicious fruit ever. A single
'egg' of the Maui costs a dollar but you'll have hundreds of plants to
sell for 15$ each if you have pots and soil and water for a year.

Get bags of SUPER SOIL, best brand, add
peat moss, (soaking first,) sand, manure and keep all green
trash, from green cans ...yours and neighbors, in a pile which you pitchfork
around once a week, to make fine, black compost. Then, your potting soil
is free. Add some good sand, not builder's sand. GARDENER's sand.

Dig a long bed and throw a four inch layer of compost on it, Dig it
in, break up clods. Find a wormy area, and throw a worm every inch into
ground. Now, Plant your geraniums, berries, morninglories. One can
mix them..... rather than separate beds. BERRIES kind of demand to
be all in one area on poles and wire. Whatever you plant, every six months
put a new four inch layer of compost on it, so keep on taking everybody's
GREEN can on trash nite. And you have to start a new pile each week. Get
chicken farmer to give you a lot of cans of waste for each pile. Put all
kitchen scraps (not meat or fat) in the latest pile.

FENCE COVERS. Every fence should have glorious, flowering vines
on it, honeysuckle is invasible but the bouquets are worth it. As trumpet
vines are 15$ each or more, and morninglories are free and do the job
faster and taller.......consider this glamorous vine instead of trumpet
vine. Honey suckle grows from cuttings. Dedicate many flats to 'rooting'
process.

If you are in L.A., I have a thousand cuttings to give you. Also an
alley to take you to with a trumpet vine which I believe WILL replicate....
Hey in my section of the VALLEY, if we wander a few alleys we'll find lots
of trumpet vines. Just not the mandevilla you probably want. Take cuttings
in your local alleys, or find trumpet vines